The Winter is Gone (Ralph Vaughan Williams)

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(Posted 2025-12-30) CPDL #87954:

Editor: Andrew Hathaway (submitted 2025-12-30). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 80 kB Copyright: CPDL

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Title: The Winter is Gone
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: TTBB
Genre: Secular, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1912
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The winter is gone
and the summer is come,
the meadows are pleasant and gay.

Ah, ah, the lark in the morning
so sweetly she sings,
and sweet smells the blossom of May.

Young Johnny the plough boy
comes whistling along with his horses,
to follow the plough;

the black birds and thrushes
sing in the green bush,
and the dairy maid
milking her cow.

He took the fair maid
by her lily white hand,
on the green bushy bank
they sat down;

then he placèd a kiss
on hersweet ruby lips,
a tree spread its branches around.

It was early next morning
he made her his bride,
their vows in the church for to pay,

so bells they did ring
and the bride she did sing,
as he crowned her the queen of the May.

The Winter is Gone (Ralph Vaughan Williams)

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